re: #185 wheat-dogg

The Katrina response and the much worse Maria “response” showed the world that, in some ways, the USA is still a developing country. It’s not because we don’t have the money (we do). We don’t have the political will to devote our vast resources toward helping poor people, and people of color. Most politicians chase votes from groups that will donate to their elections. All others are non-persons.

I entirely agree with you, but people here saw it more as “they can’t do it” because the notion of “they could but won’t do it” was beyond their ability to conceive (just as much as, say, the French Government abandoning, say, Bordeaux after a hurricane; literally inconceivable).

So they saw it as a sign of weakness, as in “America isn’t so powerful after all.” Not endorsing, just explaining.